Bill Kerr(1922-2014)

Actor

Ex-marine turned Coca-Cola marketing guru Becker is on a mission to boost sales in Australia when he discovers a dry spot in the Outback, where everyone is guzzling homegrown brew - and not a drop of his company's cola.

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The Coca-Cola Kid (1985)

In the 1950s, Bill Kerr was one of Tony Hancock's regular sidekicks in the popular radio series 'Hancock's Half Hour'. In the first series he was smarter than Tony, but as the series progressed he became more and more stupid and childlike, regularly calling Tony 'Tubb'. Despite remaining on the radio series throughout its six year run, when the TV series began he was not required.

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Awards
- 2 nominations

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Known for

Gallipoli

7.4

Jack

1981

The Pirate Movie

5.4

Major General Stanley

1982

Razorback

6.0

Jake Cullen

1984

Jason Isaacs, Don Battee, Brian Carbee, Septimus Caton, Alan Cinis, Frank Gallacher, Phil Meacham, Darren Andrew Mitchell, Ludivine Sagnier, Bruce Spence, Jeremy Sumpter, Jacob Tomuri, Frank Whitten, Dan Wyllie, Harry Eden, Mick Roughan, George MacKay, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Harry Newell, Freddie Popplewell, Rupert Simonian, Theodore Chester, Lachlan Gooch, Patrick Gooch, and Venant Wong in Peter Pan (2003)

Peter Pan

6.8

Fairy Guide

2003

Credits

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Actor

Southern Cross
5.5
- Tom Casely
- 2004
Peter Pan
6.8
- Fairy Guide
- 2003
The Shark Net
7.9
TV Mini Series
- Mr. Coleman
- 2003
Changi
8.0
TV Mini Series
- Older Eddie
- 2001
Let's Get Skase
4.9
- Mitchell Vendieks
- 2001
Minty
8.1
TV Series
- Old Thane
- Willie Courtnay
- 1998
Ship to Shore
7.4
TV Series
- Horace Brinkmann
- Mr. Brinkmann
- 1993–1996
Clowning Around 2
6.8
TV Movie
- Max
- 1993
Snowy
5.3
TV Mini Series
- Stuart McLachlan
- 1993
The New Adventures of Black Beauty
6.8
TV Series
- Samuel Burton
- 1990–1992
The River Kings
7.2
TV Mini Series
- Captain Elijah
- 1991
Over the Hill
5.9
- Maurice
- 1991
Sweet Talker
5.9
- 'Uncle' Cec
- 1991
The Private War of Lucinda Smith
7.0
TV Movie
- Scotty
- 1991
Kokoda Crescent
5.8
- Russ
- 1989

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Alternative names
- William Henry Kerr
Born
- June 10, 1922
- Cape Town, South Africa
Died
- August 28, 2014
- Perth, Western Australia, Australia(undisclosed)
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Other works
He acted in Cole Porter, Adolph Green, and Alan Strachan's musical, "Cole," at the Mermaid Theatre in London, England with Julia McKenzie, Kenneth Nelson, Peter Gale, and Una Stubbs in the cast. Alan Strachan and David Toguri were directors.

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Trivia
One aspect of Bill's life which writers Galton and Simpson picked up on for "Hancock's Half Hour" was that, between the ages of 5 and 19, he genuinely lived in the New South Wales city of Wagga Wagga.